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It's Official: Lindsay Lohan Is "Not Involved" At Ungaro Anymore

She may be in Paris for fall 2010 fashion week, but today's WWD confirms that Lindsay Lohan is merely another front row fixture.

After the starlet--who served as "artistic adviser" to the label last season and worked with designer Estrella Archs to produce an almost-universally-panned collection--failed to show up at yesterday's fall 2010 show, Ungaro owner Asim Abdullah told WWD, "She’s not involved in this collection.” Later in the day, when Lohan grabbed her front row seat at the Kenzo show, a reporter asked her why she was missing from Ungaro. "Because I don’t work for them anymore,” she answered, then went on to say, “There’s legal things going on; I can’t really discuss it.”

Details about the end of the partnership are still fuzzy, but...I can't say I'm especially surprised. Lohan was brought in to take the brand to a "younger place," but her ideas (most memorably, heart-shaped pasties) didn't seem to jive with the brand's history. And it seems the kind of publicity they were hoping to get by bringing in a big name didn't turn out as planned. I'm crossing my fingers for Estrella and the future of Emanuel Ungaro (reviews for the new collection say it's "an improvement"), and hoping other fashion houses will learn a lesson that star power doesn't necessarily translate to brilliant design skills--let's leave that to the designers, shall we?

What do you ladies think of Lindsay's abrupt departure from Ungaro? Do you think she was ever a good fit there in the first place? And do you think the collection can carry on with success without a celebrity name behind it? Do you think celebrities have become too involved in the fashion industry? Discuss!